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Yes, sort of. For example, sometimes when a tooth can be repaired via root canal treatment dentists simply advise to remove it. It seems that NHS pays them roughly the same for both procedures, so they don't want to spend extra time working on it (quick find here, surely there might be better references available http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1385407/Are-NHS-de...). The point I'm trying to make is that even in the UK one should not trust doctors 100%.

Unfortunately that's not always possible. For example you're in a pub with your friends, and someone takes a group picture and posts it online. Even if you don't have FB account, you're there, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. Very annoying.

I experience this, or something very similar, every now and again, perhaps once every two months or so. I understand that I'm awake, I can hear, but can't move or even open my eyes. However, unlike what everyone else is reporting, I do not experience any fear, terror or have difficulty breathing.

In fact, I find it quite amusing. I typically try to fall back into sleep, which occasionally work, or try to stay in this state, but never managed to go beyond a minute or so...

Maybe it's not sleep paralysis then?...

Well, tell that to Ryanair. They seem to be doing quite fine mistreating their employees [1]. I find it difficult to understand why people are working for them, but there must be reasons why.

You're suggesting only one option, and that option is to walk away. True, you can do that. In fact that is the ONLY thing you can do. From employer perspective, you're just a resource. Which is relatively easy to replace if there's enough money in their pockets.

Even the "walk away" solution is dictated by the employer, because the reality is that they effectively say "agree to our terms or p*ss off". So walking away is you picking the option #2.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/10063697/Ryanai...

I have folders one for each year. In each folder I create projects. Projects fall into two categories: big events (holiday) or generic (flowers, random family snaps, etc). Big events follow this naming scheme: MMDD - <event name>. Generic projects just have meaningful name. If an event is really big (like 2-3 weeks travel) I would create a set of albums in the project to group the pictures.

I try to tag and geotag all photos, but sometimes that just takes too long, so I don't have 100% tag coverage. I only adjust very few photos, mostly before printing or posting/emailing.

I don' think they need our medicine, housing or plumbing.

Keeping the long story short - it's a configuration management system. Have a look at http://www.opscode.com/chef/

* How about colour blind people? Shades imitating 3D still could be perceived and interpreted correctly, yet "bright colours dimension" doesn't work anymore.

* Calendar icon above the form might imply that I could see the calendar without logging on (quite handy feature, btw). But I don't know if it's clickable just by looking at it. Does it need to be blue to be clickable? Are all clickable items blue in this app?

* "Bright colour" convention as clickable is also confusing. Blue is clickable in this app, but another app might decide that red is clickable. And the green. And all shades in between. Seriously, I don't want to put any mental effort just to find a button to click.

* "icon [...] giving sense of proceeding further". That' dangerous as well. Are we going to have a convention here? Or leave it to creative souls to define the "sense"? And let ordinary people guess what the designer meant?

Yeah I know, design is a serious topic and hard to get right... :)

Looking at this: http://dribbble.com/shots/917819-iPad-Calendar-Login

There's no indication that the blue button is interactive and the calendar icon is not. Both are bloody flat! I have to hover mouse pointer to find this out on the web app. Even worse in mobile - I have to try clicking stuff just to figure out if they are "clickable". I find it very frustrating.

[1] http://bethesignal.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/css-is-awe...

    sudo true && curl -L https://www.opscode.com/chef/install.sh | sudo bash

Depends how you look at it. From BTC point of view it is the USD that's highly unstable and dropping in value... It's all relative.

Totally agree regarding b). I like to be able to jump on a random machine and NOT miss overcomplicated .*rc configuration. My .vimrc is 11 lines long, including 3 comment lines and to blank lines....

"Great idea, I never thought about it, we really need <something>! Problem is, this particular model of <something> is not the best and will not do <something that something is supposed to do> very well. In fact I remember reading bad reviews about this. But fear not! We'll go home, spend some time reading review sites and will find a really good version of <something>."

This will buy you some time, and might even look that YOU want it, which might even make it less appealing to your other half. Now, find a really expensive model of something, but at such price point that the rationality wins, even in someone who usually does not listen to your arguments (step 2). YMMV, but sometimes this tactic works out quite well.